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Norway's domestic intelligence agency said Monday that a Norwegian citizen has been arrested for handing over information to a foreign country, saying the alleged actions could harm fundamental national interests.

Russian President Vladimir Putin last week announced that his country has developed the world's first vaccine against COVID-19, which works "quite effective.

Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe went to a hospital on Monday for what Japanese media said was a regular health checkup, although the visit generated renewed worries about his health.

CanSino last month said it was in talks for opportunities to launch late-stage – or Phase 3 – trials in Saudi Arabia, Russia, Brazil and Chile.

Across 15 battleground states, the survey finds Biden has the backing of 49% of registered voters, while Trump lands at 48%.

Belarusian opposition politician Sviatlana Tsikhanouskaya said on Monday she was ready to lead Belarus and called for the creation of a legal mechanism to ensure that a new fair presidential election could be held.

Director General of Health Noor Hisham Abdullah said that the strain could mean that existing studies on vaccines might be incomplete or ineffective against the mutation.

The reason for the check-up was not immediately clear. Kyodo News said it was a regular check-up, citing people near to the prime minister.

Mercedes Barcha, who was credited by late husband and Nobel laureate Gabriel Garca Mrquez with making it possible for him to write his masterpiece One Hundred Years of Solitude," has died at the age of 87.

The British government was urged Sunday to get a grip over how grades are being awarded to school students in England, who were unable to take exams earlier this summer because of the coronavirus pandemic.

Mauritania, a member of the Arab League, said it supported the United Arab Emirates in its decision to sign an accord with Israel to agree to normalise relations, UAE state news agency WAM said on Sunday.

Britain's Health Secretary Matt Hancock will announce that Public Health England (PHE) will be scrapped and replaced by a new body specifically designed to protect the country against a pandemic by early next month, The Telegraph newspaper reported.

Zita Robinson, who's 77 and diabetic, has been careful around her granddaughter since the coronavirus pandemic took hold.

Pope Francis on Saturday urged Egypt, Ethiopia and Sudan to continue talks to resolve their yearslong dispute over a massive dam Ethiopia is building on the Blue Nile that has led to sharp regional tensions and fears of military conflict.

The two shootings dominating the Democratic primary for sheriff in Broward County, Florida, couldn't be more different.

In twos and threes, in small groups or alone, they came. Most walking, many crawling, ignoring bloodied knees and aching arms to climb a hill to the famed church housing an icon of the Virgin Mary believed to perform miracles.